Senate Dems To White House: Preserve Records (Especially You, Cheney)

[babylonsister]

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Senate Dems To White House: Preserve Records (Especially You, Cheney)
By Zachary Roth - November 13, 2008, 2:33PM


Democrats from the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees last week sent a letter to the White House demanding that it preserve all records produced by the Bush administration. The letter expressed particular concern that the office of Vice President Cheney would not comply with the law.

The letter, sent by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Sen. John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, asks White House counsel Fred Fielding to detail steps being taken to preserve White House documents and hand them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.

And it asks whether Fielding has investigated a Washington Post report that the White House has kept some presidential orders off it records, in a safe in the office of the vice president's lawyer.

Cheney's office is separately involved in a lawsuit brought by the watchdog group CREW, which is seeking to ensure that all vice presidential records are made available to the public.

The Democrats' letter cites that litigation, noting, "the declarations filed in that case by the Office of the Vice President raise serious concerns about its interpretations of the (Presidential Records Act)."

The law requires all presidential and vice presidential records to be transferred to the National Archives as soon as the president leaves office.

[SharonAnn]

1. Remember the Bush, Sr. (41) took all records, including the hard drives, with him when he left

office. "National Security" or somethng like that.

Then, he claimed they were personal papers, etc. and had them moved to the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library where most of them are not available.

Way to hide secrets!

I'm sure that GWB and Cheney plan to do something that's even more nefarious.

[Donnachaidh]

2. I'll bet the records started disappearing the minute McCain got the nod.

It's doubtful there is anything LEFT to preserve. :shrug:

[Miss Chybil]

3. What records?

:shrug: